Question 17354 — death and death

Summary

Mr. Antoine Villedieu questions the Minister of Regional Planning and Decentralization about the scattering of human ashes outside necropolises. Article L. 2213-9 of the CGCT stipulates that the mode of transport of deceased persons, the maintenance of order and decency in cemeteries, burials and exhumations are subject to the police power of the mayor. In addition, article L. 2213-10 of the same code indicates that places burial grounds other than cemeteries are also subject to the authority, police and supervision of mayors. If it is recognized that in the event of dispersion in the wilderness, the person responsible for providing for the funeral must make a declaration to the municipality of birth, the question arises as to how a mayor could exercise his funeral police power if the dispersion in the wilderness on the territory of his municipality is not subject to a prior request to its department. The declaration of dispersion is very rarely applied and funeral operators are not very concerned about it since it is an operation mainly carried out by the family. Consequently, he asks him to specify whether the dispersal project in the wilderness must be the subject of a request to the mayor where the dispersal would take place in order to ensure that it is not a non-compliant place or with the agreement of the owner.

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